“Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself” - that was Thomas Jefferson’s way of saying be resourceful; and the 3rd president of the Unite States epitomized resourcefulness. In addition to being an astute politician, Jefferson was an architect, author, horticulturist, inventor, paleontologist and founder of the University of Virginia. When President Kennedy welcomed a group of Nobel Prize winners to the White House, he described them as the most extraordinary group of talent ever gathered there - with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson was there alone.